Curriculum
Servite curriculum is designed to nurture exceptional scholarship, to foster a love of and joy for learning.
Relevance
About The Curriculum
We believe that our curriculum must be relevant to our student’s lives and the issues that they face.
We engage students in a wide range of disciplines through both disparate subjects and cross-curricular inquiry projects that connect our students’ learning to real-life problems. We are focused on empowering our students to be ‘all that they are created to be’ and in so doing tailor curriculum outcomes that meet the individual needs of our students. We strive to ensure that all our learning experiences are aligned with students’ cognitive, physical, emotional and social development.
The emerging integration of technologies into all walks of life has exciting implications for the educational environment. We focus on core STEM initiatives and integrate important digital literacies across the curriculum. We acknowledge the developing technical skills necessary for student success in the wider world and therefore make this a constant focus for our curriculum planning.
The Servite Way
Recognising Our Students Needs
Our school-wide teaching and learning framework, ‘The Servite Way’, recognises that our students’ needs are very different in Year 7 to what they are in Year 12 when they are emerging young adults ready to take on the world. Servite provides a dynamic, contemporary, challenging, authentic and engaging curriculum. The curriculum meets the Western Australian Curriculum requirements and is based on our philosophy of learning, which encompasses the three key elements of knowledge, skills and teaching practice (pedagogy). We focus on learning how to learn well, promoting a positive learning mindset, and maximising learning with productive cognitive and behavioural techniques. Our teaching emphasises the capacity of an individual to learn, educating students to embrace academic challenges and how to benefit from the struggles they may encounter. Learning theorists call this the ‘learning pit’ and it is in facing these challenges that our students reach their ‘ah ha’ moment.
The College’s commitment to exceptional teaching provides authentic and empowering learning environments for students. Our teachers foster rigour and deep understanding, educating our students to use disciplined and critical inquiry. Students are taught to understand connectedness across different contexts and become engaged with their learning and the learning process.
